The TikTok Problem Is Not What You Think

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28. Maybe not. Who knows the mind of the billionaire class but through their actions both seen and reported.

China has more profit incentive to weaken this country while it builds data/product markets in the Southern Hemisphere.

The fact that Zuckerberg has changed FB since 2016 (not just putting more attention into AI market power, but having to send compensation checks to its users -- I've received four -- for his stealth uses of facial recog gathering and sales) shows the administration's pressures work, perhaps not as much as WE want, but nevertheless. That's an old example from Obama days. Another example is how studies show that FB helped get out the youth vote in 2012. The company paid a record $5 billion fine to the Federal Trade Commission in 2019 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Zuckerberg's shifted in his allegiance to American interests, even if Musk hasn't.

To buy into the belief that there's nothing this administration can do -- nevermind WE -- is to, wittingly or not, buy into the rw "politics of inevitability," something Russia and China have established in their autocratic market and political ecosystems. I'd never endorse that Biden do anything but what he's having his teams do to continue his long term goals of protecting Americans' privacy, and in doing that, protecting our national security.